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BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)

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329 points beeburrt | 2 comments | 16 May 25 06:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.602s | source
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tzal3x ◴[16 May 25 07:22 UTC] No.44002634[source]▶
Using a crypto wallet for donations is always a convenient alternative.
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1. Shatnerz ◴[16 May 25 07:47 UTC] No.44002787[source]▶
until someone runs their funds through TornadoCash and dusts your wallet, thus putting it on many sanctioned lists and making it impossible to offloads funds into fiat by legal means.
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2. AnthonyMouse ◴[16 May 25 19:40 UTC] No.44009090[source]▶
I still don't understand how anyone expects "sanctioned lists" to actually work. The same logic applies to the wallet of the exchange you might use if you were using an intermediary. A sender doesn't need the recipient's permission to transfer funds and wallet addresses containing funds are all public.

If $0.0001 in tainted funds can taint a wallet containing a billion dollars then everything will end up tainted immediately, whether a result of trolls or just funds being transferred by ordinary users in jurisdictions that don't enforce the same sanctions. But if nothing is tainted because everything is then the sanctions are meaningless because someone with sanctioned funds would just deposit them at a major exchange in a foreign jurisdiction and then withdraw them again as untainted funds.